ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,412, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Rotating electric machine" was invented by Manabu Yazaki (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor core of a rotating electric machine includes a cooling passage. The cooling passage includes an upstream end that opens in a first end surface of the rotor core and a downstream end that opens in a second end surface of the rotor core. The rotating electric machine is further equipped with a rectifying structure for converting the flow direction of gas an axial direction and a circumferential direction of the rotor. The rectifying structure is fixed to a non-...